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We're into an orgy of sin and confession right now that brings to mind the old Stalinist show trials of the 1930s and the culture of confession practiced by the Chinese government since the days of Mao Tse-tung.

At that time, the rise of Deng seemed just another twist in the operatic political struggles in China that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung that same year.

Not surprisingly, the combination of such lax oversight with the ideological passions of the Korean and Chinese civil wars led to disaster—for while the U.S. Army may not have cared about the fate of the prisoners, Rhee, Chiang, Mao Tse-tung, and Kim II Sung certainly did.

Irrational, as President Richard Nixon acknowledged when he embraced détente with the Soviet communists, toasted China's fierce communist Mao Tse-tung and then escalated the war against "communist" Vietnam and neutral Cambodia.